Email on Windows 7

As Pbcopter said, the reason there hasn't been much said about the removal of Outlook Express is because Microsoft changed to offering Windows Mail instead via an optional download.

Between Thunderbird 3, Windows Mail, or even Outlook I'm sure you'll find something that works better than OE did.

Ok, Windows Live Mail does allow you to read offline but does anyone know if it'll let you access exchange server accounts?

For example I use two Yahoo! accounts and an email account from my college. The Yahoo! accounts are of course POP3 but the college account is an exchange account. When I first loaded Windows 7 and installed Outlook 2007 I set up my Yahoo! accounts first. The only problem is that Windows has never allowed you to set up an exchange account while running Outlook (aside from the intitial setup which I missed because I setup Yahoo! first). In previous versions of Windows you had to go to Control Panel and then MAIL to set up an exchange account after the fact but alas W7 doesn't have MAIL.

I d/l WLM and I couldn't find a way to set up an exchange account.

I won't go into all the gruesome details but I ultimately had to reinstall Windows 7 and Outlook so that I could setup my exchange first. Now everything is the way I want it.

Does anyone else have any ideas on how you can add an exchange account after the fact? I will have a work email soon and that will most likely be an exchange account also.

Just to let you know that Thunderbird was not straightforward. Messages were received OK but it would not Send as the set-up had not used Pop3.

Rather than sort that out I decided to have another go with Windows Live Mail. I opened a second User Account and installed from scratch. Much better this time, only problem is every incoming Talktalk message is listed twice - once in its own account and once within my Live Mail account (on the new User Account).

Talktalk emailed me after 10 days, saying download Outlook Express! When I mailed back that Win 7 does not support OE a more senior adviser apologised and said use Windows Mail (not Win Live Mail!).

I don't understand what Vargatron is trying to do! but if it is about setting up in the right order (?) could establishing an additional User Account be a way forward? Not an easy option if you are long established and then have to copy over everything stored before uninstalling the original account though.

By the way, when I set up the second user account, I was offered another 60 day free trial of an Office 2007 suite of software. Strange!

Forum posts have been helpful, thanks.

Johnboy

Fwiw, Johnboy, if you look in "Tools" "message rules" you will probably find a way that suits you, to eliminate the double mail problem. I have multiple accounts for the family, all through the same ISP.By specific instructions from the "rules"choices, they are all redirected or left on the server for te corect recipient.

Thanks davehc. This may sound daft but I can't find the way in to 'Tools', let alone 'Message Rules'.

Assume no prior expertise in my case, please!

Press the "Alt key", this will temporarily show the File Menu if it is hidden.

The Alt key does indeed do the trick.

Many thanks, Clifford.

Go along on the top bar to the small windows on the roght side (after the paintbrush) click it and you will see an option "show menu bar" which will make the bar permanent.

There's good news and bad news!

Thanks to Clifford and davehc I have found the Tools > Message Rules. I set up a Delete message against one email address and I now get those in only one Inbox - that's the good news. Only problem is, it's not the box I want them in. They appear within the Live Mail 'hosted' account but go direct to the Deleted box in the Talktalk 'stand-alone' account.

Will experiment further and let you know the result.